From 14th February to 18th March 2022, 20 spectacular restaurants in London are running a sake promotion pairing some of their iconic dishes with Japanese sake.

Prepare to have your taste buds tantalised! Along with our buddies, The Oystermen (Observer Food Mag. Restaurant of the Year 2019), we’ve put together a special sake & seafood experience for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. I’m really excited about this! Having done sake & seafood pairings at The Oystermen […]

A new lockdown brings a new slew of online tutored tastings! We’ve got three brand new sessions to take us up until the end of the lockdown on 2nd December (let’s see how that statement dates). Take advantage of our 15% sale and order your sakes now. If you want to join any of the […]

Now we’re fully restocked (phew! Sorry about that folks) it’s time we got our online sake tastings programme going again. We’ve got four fantastic new sessions scheduled on Wednesdays at 7pm – 8pm through September and October. Order your sake while and sale is on and join in! Wednesday 16th September – Warm Sake “What […]

The last round of online tastings proved popular so I thought we’d run another four after next week’s. Thus far the lectures accompanying the tasting have been somewhat technical so I wanted to take the opportunity to focus more on tasting and on fundamentals (there’ll still be some ‘meat’ for the geeks out there!). These […]

I thought it would be fun to do some tutored tastings online via Zoom so I’ve put together a little timetable of four online sessions, one per week, starting at 7pm, from 15th April so everyone has plenty of time to order the sake. Wednesday 15th April – Gozenshu 1859 Prototype – a delve into namazake Wednesday […]

Get ready to toast 2,000 years of Japanese tradition and culture this month with the exciting launch of the first ever London Sake Week. Update – map added! (scroll down)

Earlier this year I had the fortune (and, frankly, honour) to intern in Hayashi Honten brewery, Gifu Prefecture. My gracious host for this two-week period was Rieko Hayashi, an inspirational lady and the President of Hayashi Honten. Hayashi-san generously opened her home to me and had me to stay with her and her family, whilst […]